Joseph K. Pak

My vision of teaching at a college is training future leaders who will be equipped with a passionate heart for Christ and competent skills to reach out and impact the world with the truths that transform lives.

Taught biblical language classes to M.Div. students at Silver Spring extension of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Bible classes to undergraduate students at Silver Spring extension of Boyce College.

-Minister of Family Ministry: overseeing Stephen Ministry, father’s school, wife’s school, and other family related ministries

-Minister of Education Ministry: overseeing the education of age groups from preschoolers to high school students

-Liaison between Korean ministry and English ministry and International ministry

-Zone pastor: shepherding over 22 cell groups

11/01-7/02 - New Covenant Baptist Church, Richardson, TX-Served as the interim pastor of this English-speaking multi-ethnic church preaching and teaching Bible studies.

7/91-7/99 - Hanuri Korean Baptist Church, Carrollton, TX-Served in various positions according to the needs of the church--as children’s minister, youth minister, young adults minister and as the interim pastor of English ministry. Also provided simultaneous interpretation from Korean to English for the main worship service.

5/86-5/88 - Gibeuon Baptist Church, Fairfax, VA-Served as the education minister in charge of children’s ministry and started the youth and the young adult ministries.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

2010 - “Faith That Does Not Justify” a paper read at Evangelical Theological Society National Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 18, 2010

2010 - “How to Use the Grade Center to Make Students Take More Responsibility” at Technology for Teaching Conference, Upland, IN, August, 2010 (with Leon Amstutz and LeRoy Kroll)

I began to go to church and read the Bible in 1979, but I was born again and my life changed when by the enablement of the Holy Spirit I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior on August 25, 1982 when I was 19.